SDN Cast – Page 4 – Soft as in Software Blog

October 14, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 40/41- .NET, Dynamics and HoloLens

Last week Microsoft was in the Amsterdam RAI with their TechDays 2016. A two-day conference with lots of great sessions to learn a thing or two. Marcel Meijer, Fanie Reynders and I were there as well in the Experts Lounge to answer some questions from the community and to look at some sessions ourselves and learn. While we were around anyway, we decided that it would be a good idea to take some interviews with some of the speakers and record scenes from the venue just for entertainment purposes. You can go to http://www.sdncast.nl to watch the results of it. Keep in mind that as our audience is Dutch the recordings are also Dutch for the large part.

As we skipped the week of news and events, we covered this week the news and events for two weeks. Fanie couldn’t make it this week and he is also very busy preparing his sessions for next week at our Dutch .NET Meetup.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 24?
https://youtu.be/_jPmS0Bcl2M

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2, last week however we recorded at the TechDays so, if you want to be sure you better Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw or go to http://www.sdncast.nl to find out when our next broadcast is planned.

News of the week

Announcing #WINsiders4Good Give Month
https://insider.windows.com/Home/Give?wa=wsignin1.0

Announcing the preview of the Office 365 adoption content pack in Power BI
https://blogs.office.com/2016/10/10/announcing-the-preview-of-the-office-365-adoption-content-pack-in-power-bi/

Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog

Data Mining the 2016 Presidential Campaign Finance Data
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/10/10/data-mining-the-2016-presidential-campaign-finance-data/

Azure IoT Gateway SDK integrates support for Azure Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-gateway-sdk-integrates-support-for-azure-functions/

What’s new in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 for Universal Windows Developers
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/06/whats-new-in-visual-studio-15-preview-5-for-universal-windows-developers/

Code search and Exploratory Testing GA
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/10/10/code-search-and-exploratory-testing-ga/

Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/10/faster-visual-studio-15-startup/

Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/05/announcing-visual-studio-15-preview-5/

Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – September 2016 build

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/30/just-released-windows-developer-virtual-machines-september-2016-build

.NET Framework Containers
https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/dotnet-framework/

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.1
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/10/05/announcing-uwp-community-toolkit-1-1

Angular 2.1
https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Dynamics 365

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/dynamics-365-first-look

Introducing the Microsoft HoloLens Commercial Suite

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/commercial-suite

Events

Last week’s events

TechDays – October 4-5^th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

The TechDays sessions have been recorded for the most part and are already available on Channel9:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2016-The-Netherlands

Our own recordings:

SDN Cast 22 – TechDays 2016 on location Special Edition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-Y9GhbUI4

SDN Cast 23 – TechDays 2016 on location Special Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEubRoXHBe4

This week’s events

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14^th
http://Codeuur.nl
Next week events

Dutch .NET Group – October 18^th – Utrecht
ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all
http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

We will be there in Utrecht again, Fanie is doing his session there with Gerald Versluis. We will broadcast the sessions live and try to record another SDN Cast on location. See you there!

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21^th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Upcoming events

Windows 10 Event – New York – October 26
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/octoberevent

Xamarin Dev Days – Den Bosch – November 5
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-den-bosch

DevIntersection Europe 2016 – Haarlem – November 14-16
https://devintersectioneurope.com/#!

We will provide discount codes through the SDN newsletter!

Connect(); // 2016 // November 16-17
http://connectevent.microsoft.com/

Unity Connect – November 16-18 – Haarlem
https://www.unityconnect.com/2016

Xamarin Dev Days – Rotterdam – November 25
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-rotterdam

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in a bit more than an hour on the topics that are hot for this week and hear the latest news and see the great demo’s on technology and software development that you can apply in your real world scenarios.

Don’t forget to subscribe our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel! And if you haven’t heard, the 100^th subscriber will get something in return!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw

We are still working on our SDN Cast website; this week you could see that we had our live SDN Cast embedded on the SDN Cast main page while running our show. Check it out but it is still work in progress! http://www.sdncast.nl

October 1, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 39 – WPF/XAML UI in PowerShell

It’s the Last week of September already and our twenty first SDN Cast week filled with announcements with one of the largest IT Pro events going on this week… Ignite! Just too many announcements to sum up but we will try to get some highlights here. Next to the announcements and events we also bring you two demos this week: Building a stub framework with .NET Core and providing great WPF/XAML User Interfaces within this ‘boring’ PowerShell environment. Did you know you can actually build graphical user interfaces while scripting your stuff in PowerShell?

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 21?
https://youtu.be/3gmZzfubZK0

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2, this week however a day early, if you want to be sure you better Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw or go to http://www.sdncast.nl to find out when our next broadcast is planned.

News of the week

· TypeScript 2.0 is now available!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/09/22/announcing-typescript-2-0/

· Introducing .NET Standard
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/

· Durandal 2.2.0 Release
http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/durandal-2-2-0-release/

· Team Foundation Server “15” RC 2 available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/09/26/team-foundation-server-15-rc-2-available/
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use

· Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-cli-2-preview/

· Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server now GA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-service-fabric-for-windows-server-now-ga/

· Announcing the public preview of Azure Monitor
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-monitor/

· Microsoft Azure Stack – Preview 2

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/

· Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2016
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2016/

· Announcing Azure DNS General Availability
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-dns-general-availability/

· BIO-key’s Windows Hello fingerprint accessories now available at Microsoft Stores

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/28/bio-keys-windows-hello-fingerprint-accessories-now-available-at-microsoft-stores

Office Addin and Web Part Announcements

OneNote Online Add-In Support (GA)
SharePoint Framework Client side web parts (Preview)
Outlook for Mac Add-in Support (Preview – October)
Ribbon Extensibility in Outlook Mac (Preview – October)
First-Run Callouts in Word/Excel/PowerPoint (GA)
Word API 1.1/1.2 in Office Online (GA)
Excel API 1.3 in Win32/Online (Preview)
Mailbox API 1.4 in Outlook (Preview – October)
In-client store improvements (GA)
Deep Linking Support for Add-ins (Preview)
Admin Deployment (Updated Preview)

Microsoft Graph Announcements

Support for hybrid environments

Exchange 2016, mail, calendar, contacts (Preview)

Webhooks support

Mail, Calendar and contacts entities (GA)
Onedrive Files and Folders (Preview)
SharePoint webhooks (Preview)

Microsoft Graph APIs

Excel (GA)
Outlook – Open Type Extensions (GA)
Outlook – Mailtips and Online meeting URL (Preview)
SharePoint – List and Libraries (Preview)
SharePoint – OneDrive/File Handlers (Preview)
AAD – Administrative Units, Identity Protection, Dynamic Groups (Preview)

Client Libraries

.NET (GA)
Android (GA)
Python (Preview)
Ruby (Preview)
JavaScript (Preview)
NodeJS (Preview)

There are a lot more announcements this week coming from Ignite, but we’ll leave it here for now. I’m sure we will get back on many of the subjects over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, you can watch all the Ignite videos at http://myIgnite.microsoft.com/videos

Events

Last week’s events

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

How to practice TDD without shooting yourself in the foot – Dennis Doomen – September 20^th – Rotterdam
http://blaakselectie.nl/overige-berichten/dinsdag-20-september-how-to-practice-tdd-without-shooting-yourself-the-foot-dennis-doomen

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21^th – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22^th – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

Fanie and I were there, it was a great evening to meet some of the other peers and learn some new stuff!

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd – Leusden
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

This week’s events

Microsoft Ignite – September 26-30^th Atlanta
https://ignite.microsoft.com

Recorded sessions:
http://myIgnite.microsoft.com/videos
Next week events

TechDays – October 4-5^th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

We will be there, so if you want to talk with us come on over and have a chat!

Upcoming events

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14^th
http://Codeuur.nl

Dutch .NET Group – October 18^th – Utrecht

ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all

http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21^th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

DevIntersection Europe 2016 – Haarlem – November 14-16
https://devintersectioneurope.com/#!

We will provide discount codes through the SDN newsletter!

Unity Connect – 16-18 November – Haarlem
https://www.unityconnect.com/2016

Demo time

Fanie Reynders created an easy to use stub framework to use within your .NET Core projects to quickly test your application with some dummy information. The tool is available via Nuget and called Stubbr. Following the .NET Core demo Maarten showed us what most of us can’t imagine and that is building PowerShell scripts with an actual graphic designed User Interface implementing WPF/XAML. What you’ll see is that by extending the PowerShell script with additional XAML coding you can start building your own, nothing is too crazy, windows to interact with the end user but keep the power of scripting using PowerShell.

Update: The title said Week 38, but it is actually Week 39 … time flies!

September 22, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 38 – JSON Web Tokens + more

Another day on Wednesday, Thursday was again not an option for this week as we are facilitating a user group event on Thursday. A relative long list of news items and events and Fanie took on the JWT demo for this week. JSON Web Tokens, an open industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 20?
https://youtu.be/Of0yfODGlqc

News of the week

Angular, version 2: proprioception-reinforcement
http://angularjs.blogspot.se/2016/09/angular2-final.html

Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2016/09/15/changes-to-visual-studio-15-setup/

Unlimited free ‘roaming’ in Europa
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3111_en.htm

HoloLens Experience "Destination: Mars" now open at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/09/19/hololens-experience-destination-mars-now-open-at-kennedy-space-center-visitor-complex
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/things-to-do/destination-mars.aspx

Microsoft Azure Germany
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/
Microsoft Azure Germany now available via first-of-its-kind cloud for Europe
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-germany-now-available-via-first-of-its-kind-cloud-for-europe/

Microsoft delivers version 1 of ‘Bletchley’ Azure blockchain as a service middleware
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-version-1-of-bletchley-azure-blockchain-as-a-service-middleware/
Blockchain – Ethereum Private Consortium Network
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/ethereum-consortium-blockchain-network/

Google Allo Smart Messaging
https://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2016/09/google-allo-smarter-messaging-app.html

MacOS Sierra released
http://www.apple.com/nl/macos/sierra/

Android Studio 2.2
http://android-developers.blogspot.nl/2016/09/android-studio-2-2.html

TFVC Support in Preview for Team Services Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/09/18/tfvc-support-in-preview-for-team-services-plugin-for-intellij-and-android-studio/

Microsoft Band App vs Microsoft Health
https://www.microsoft.com/Microsoft-Band/en-us

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt752379.aspx

Preview: iOS Simulator (For Windows) update 4
https://releases.xamarin.com/preview-ios-simulator-for-windows-update-4

Announcing the DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 release
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/09/20/announcing-the-dotnetcompilerplatform-1-0-2-release/

Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code has landed
http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/19/java-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-has-landed/
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.java

Events

Last week’s events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12^th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12^th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Node.js Interactive Europe – September 15-18 2016
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive-europe

This week’s events

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21^th – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22^th – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd – Leusden
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single
Next week events

Microsoft Ignite – September 26-30^th Atlanta
https://ignite.microsoft.com

Upcoming events

TechDays – October 4-5^th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14^th
http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21^th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Dutch .NET Group – October 18^th – Utrecht

ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all

http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

Unity Connect – 16-18 November – Haarlem
https://www.unityconnect.com/2016

Demo time

Fanie Reynders this week demo’ed JWT. This is short for JSON Web Tokens, an open industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties. It shows us how to handle the exchange of tokens in a .NET Core application. A complex subject that for most people is hard to get but by going into the details we presented a complete running example explaining how to use tokens for authentication using JWT technologies.

We also are working on our SDN Cast website, you can check that out right now but it is still work in progress! http://www.sdncast.nl

September 15, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 37 – Electron and more

This week again a day early on Wednesday, Thursday wasn’t an option this week due to other obligations. We still found a number of interesting news facts to discuss and demos on Electron, .NET Core, WordPerfect, Azure Portal and more. A full episode this week, and a sneak preview at our new SDN Cast website: www.sdncast.nl filled with our mainly Dutch SDN Casts.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 19?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FRS2OnnGg

News of the week

Dot.net Core 1.01
https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windows

Service Fabric on Linux support available this month
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/service-fabric-on-linux-support-available-this-month/

Major Updates: iOS 10, Android Nougat, and Other Tasty Bits
https://blog.xamarin.com/major-updates-ios-10-android-nougat-and-other-tasty-bits/

Apps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store!
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/14/apps-built-using-the-desktop-bridge-now-available-in-the-windows-store

Bring your existing apps and games to the Windows Store with the Desktop Bridge
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop

iOS10 Released yesterday
https://maartenvanstam.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/apple-wwdc-2016-overview-ios/
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios-10/

Microsoft is “dedicated to mobile,” Dona Sarkar says
http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-is-dedicated-to-mobile-dona-sarkar-says
http://www.winbeta.org/news/here-comes-the-latest-windows-10-insider-build-get-ready

ActionGram now available in Store
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/actiongram/9nblggh5ftmt

Blocking out-of-date Flash ActiveX controls on IE11
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/13/blocking-out-of-date-flash

Events

Last week’s events

IFA

http://b2b.ifa-berlin.com
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/01/innovative-devices-from-microsoft-partners-bring-windows-10-experiences-to-life

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7^th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8- Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

This week’s events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12^th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12^th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Node.js Interactive Europe – September 15-18 2016
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive-europe

Next week events

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21^th – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22^th – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd – Leusden
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

Upcoming events

Microsoft Ignite – September 26-30^th Atlanta
https://ignite.microsoft.com

TechDays – October 4-5^th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14^th
http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21^th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Dutch .NET Group – October 18^th – Utrecht
ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all
http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

Demo time

Fanie Reynders this week demo’ed Azure Portal, showing many new options in Azure Portal. Maarten van Stam was updating .NET Core (www.dot.net) 1.0.1 live on the show and shows the new trend, developing JavaScript Desktop applications using Electron (http://electron.atom.io). It’s cross platform to build Desktop Applications. Many large applications already have been in the open already and a good example for that is Microsoft Visual Studio Code. This runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. In the meantime, Marcel Meijer surprised us with a WordPerfect demo. The underwater screen is back from where it came from. So watch the show for a great impression, but you need to speak Dutch ;-).

September 7, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 36 – Windows Wedding Day?

A day early, today we recorded our Dutch SDN Cast live from our own home locations. Last week we recorded our SDN Cast on location at venue Hotel Oud London in Zeist to introduce our quarterly SDN Event. As usual we discussed the news and events for this week and tried to hook into the Apple Event while we were casting our show.

Just before going live I updated my broadcasting PC to Microsoft Anniversary and due to having a Dutch system I was redirected to an information page explaining I was eligible to install “Microsoft Wedding day” and my machine was ready to install “Microsoft Birthday” edition. An example of how machine translations messed up … The upside is that it was fun to read providing a good laugh. I won’t laugh too loud though as I probably make similar mistakes translating Dutch to English resulting in Denglisch J. Obviously it is not easy to translate Anniversary into the Dutch equivalent.

For my Dutch readers, here is the info provided:

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 18?
https://youtu.be/Rpv3ZrmM8OY

News of the week

Announcing a Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2016/09/01/announcing-an-ongoing-microsoft-net-core-and-asp-net-core-bug-bounty

The Web Clipper Goes Open-Source
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/onenotedev/2016/08/31/the-web-clipper-goes-open-source

Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/09/01/free-ebook-microsoft-azure-essentials-fundamentals-of-azure-second-edition/

10k Apart – Inspiring the Web with Just 10k
https://a-k-apart.com/

New Dev Center Capabilities
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/29/new-dev-center-capabilities

Official Docker Images by Microsoft
https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/

Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux now available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2016/08/30/microsoft-data-science-virtual-machine-for-windows-and-linux-now-available

Desktop App Converter Preview (Project Centennial)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53614

Xamarin.Forms now has a Mac front-end on GitHub
https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/773234995473244160/photo/1

Xamarin.Android 7.0 Now With More Nougat
We’re excited to announce that we have published Xamarin.Android support for Android 7.0 for both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.
https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-android-7-0-now-with-more-nougat

Apple Event

This week we have tough competition with our SDN Cast. At the same time of our Cast there was the Apple Event announcing a new Apple Watch, the iPhone 7, wireless earbuds. Every now and then we picked up some pricing or news items from the Apple show. We are not forgetting that a large part of Software Development is targeting Apple devices so it has our attention!
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/
https://youtu.be/_OMFCLQztMg

New version Wordperfect
Yes, after all this years, from being the largest text editor to a minor player today they still exist. And now there was a new version announced. Old times are back again! Do you remember what F7 will do?

http://www.wordperfect.com/en

Events

Last week’s events

Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” – Augustus 30^th live event

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event

SDN event September 2^nd – Zeist
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

This week’s events

IFA
http://b2b.ifa-berlin.com

Look at all the cute machines they all announced around IFA
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/01/innovative-devices-from-microsoft-partners-bring-windows-10-experiences-to-life

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7^th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8th – Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

Next week events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12^th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12^th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Upcoming events

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21^th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21^th – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22^th – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd – Leusden
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

Microsoft Ignite – September 26-30^th Atlanta
https://ignite.microsoft.com

TechDays – October 4-5^th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14^th
http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21^th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Demo time

Fanie Reynders gave a short intro on Code Connect and Alive, tooling to enhance your Visual Studio experience and showing what the guys were doing just before going over to Microsoft. Let’s wait and see how acquiring Code Connect will turn out in the near future.

http://blog.comealive.io/Code-Connect-Joins-Microsoft/

Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel! And if you haven’t heard, the 100^th subscriber will get something in return!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw

September 3, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 35

This week we recorded our Dutch SDN Cast live on location at venue Hotel Oud London in Zeist as intro for our quarterly SDN Event. As usual we discuss the news and events for this week but today also a short intro on the speakers at our SDN event.

It is our first on venue recording so we had no clue to what to bring and how to get this to work. I’ll promise, next recordings will slowly get better once we know how to get our gear functioning properly J.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 17?
https://youtu.be/yEJ1IWgKmhU

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2 (may vary) but to make sure you best Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw !

News of the week

Paid extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/30/paid-extension-in-the-visual-studio-marketplace/

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 now available as a partner delivered cloud service

https://blogs.windows.com/business/2016/09/01/windows-10-enterprise-e3-and-e5-now-available-as-a-partner-delivered-cloud-service

Announcing MSTest V2 Framework support for .NET Core 1.0 RTM
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/09/01/announcing-mstest-v2-framework-support-for-net-core-1-0-rtm/

Events

Last week’s events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam- Augustus 27th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

This week’s events

Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” – August 30 live event
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event

SDN event September 2nd – Zeist
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Next week events

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8th – Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

Upcoming events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

How to practice TDD without shooting yourself in the foot – Dennis Doomen – September 20th – Rotterdam
http://blaakselectie.nl/overige-berichten/dinsdag-20-september-how-to-practice-tdd-without-shooting-yourself-the-foot-dennis-doomen

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21st- Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21st – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22nd – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd- Leusden
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

TechDays – October 4 and 5th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14th
http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-20th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

SDN Event

September 2nd we had our latest SDN Event in Zeist, with all kind of topics software development related with great speakers. For a full list of our events schedule take a look at:

http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

There is a list with all the abstracts giving you an impression of what it was all about.

We recorded a couple of our sessions (again, we are in the learning process to get our sessions recorded so we started by recording just a few to ‘test drive’)

Recordings:

Build Intelligent Bots with IoT on Azure by Fanie Reynders
https://youtu.be/WmxOSXqC7S4

[Dutch Recording] Continuous Delivery and DevOps – The Microsoft Way by Hassan Fadili
https://youtu.be/0x5c4o5ywWk

[Dutch Recording] Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery for Your Xamarin App by Gerald Versluis
https://youtu.be/4G-jvq0zTuw

HoloLens

Roy Janssen offered to show us the HoloLens to all the attendees at the SDN Event on top of an introduction session in the first session slots to give an impression what you can do with it and how to work with a HoloLens to create your own applications. Over the day everyone had the chance to try the HoloLens and personally experience what it feels like. His company can be found at his website http://semper-IT.nl.

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in about an hour on the topics that are hot for this week and hear the latest news and see the great demo’s on technology and software development that you can apply in your real world scenarios.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel!
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August 26, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 34

Another webcast (Dutch) with tech-news and this time a Docker and HoloLens Demo. This is week 34 and here is the news we discussed in our SDN Cast. The latest news on software development with both serious and light news items.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 16?
https://youtu.be/ILQd9Saol9s

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2 but to make sure you best Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw !

News of the week

Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/08/22/visual-studio-15-preview-4

What’s new in C# 7.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0

Why are we open sourcing our extensions?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalmrangers/2016/08/17/why-are-we-open-sourcing-our-extensions
https://github.com/ALM-Rangers/Countdown-Widget-Extension

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 is now available
https://github.com/blog/2232-github-extension-for-visual-studio-2-0-is-now-available

Google Stops Chrome Browser Apps (Except for Chrome OS)

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

Microsoft Edge and Continuum: Your desktop browser on Mobile
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/08/24/microsoft-edge-continuum

The Dick Moffat Technique
https://dmoffat.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/how-to-really-publish-excel-data-to-power-bi

Power BI Desktop Augustus Feature Summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-feature-summary

No More Ransomware

https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Fun: Xbox onesie
https://majornelson.com/2016/08/25/xbox-onesie-giveaway/?linkId=28048492

Events

This week’s events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam- Augustus 27th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

Next week events

Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” – august 30 live event

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event

SDN event September 2nd – Zeist

Our second Dutch SDN Event for 2016 with special guest Roy Janssen with his company Semper IT showing the HoloLens for you to see with your own eyes what the device looks like and what it can do. In a special presentation Roy will show you what you can do with it. There is still room for registration for the event in Zeist (NL) so don’t miss it and register here:

http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Upcoming events

Fixxup – September 22nd
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14th

http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Demo context:

This week in our Dutch webcast two demos, the HoloLens Teaser and a Docker Intro. We asked Roy Janssen to give us a quick intro of what we can expect in his sessions at the SDN Event next week September 2nd and we also did a Docker Demo as a follow up of one of our earlier SDN Casts where we discussed the Docker Conference a couple of weeks ago.

HoloLens

This week a HoloLens Teaser to warm us up for next week’s event we organized: SDN Event op 2 september. Roy is showing us what you can do with the HoloLens and is showing what Augmented Reality is all about. Next week in the SDN Event session he will deep dive into the HoloLens in a special session giving an overview of the options you have to develop for the HoloLens by showing use of the tools and applications available. His company can be found at his website http://semper-IT.nl.

Docker

A couple of weeks ago we discussed the Docker Conference in our Events section. As promised back then, this week we finally demoed in our 16th Dutch SDN Cast Docker for Windows to show you how quick and easy it is to set up a running Docker environment on your Windows machine and use some of the images available on http://hub.docker.com.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel!
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August 19, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 33

Another week of webcasts and tech news. This is week 33 and here is the news we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast covering the latest news on software development and side information related to that for this moment in time.

Where is our Dutch SDN Cast to be found?
https://youtu.be/rOK-XKuV5OY

Subscribe to the channel if you understand Dutch and don’t want to miss another episode of our cast!

News of the week

Google is killing off Hangouts on Air in September
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/15/12490666/google-hangouts-on-air-september-youtube-live

Hangouts On Air moving from Google+ to YouTube Live
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786

Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/17/introducing-the-uwp-community-toolkit
https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit

Announcing NuGet 3.5 RC
http://blog.nuget.org

Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/15/introducing-the-net-framework-monthly-rollup

Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/08/15/fewer-visual-studio-sign-in-prompts

Announcing HTTP/2 support for all customers with Azure CDN from Akamai
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-http-2-support-for-all-customers-with-azure-cdn-from-akamai

Customer segmentation and push notifications: a new Windows Dev Center Insider Program feature
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/17/customer-segmentation-and-push-notifications-a-new-windows-dev-center-insider-program-feature

Project Spark ended this week
http://forums.projectspark.com/yaf_postst214854.aspx

PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux

Events

Events Last Week

Visual Studio Live 8-12 Augustus – Redmond
https://vslive.com/events/redmond-2016/home.aspx

Recordings are to be found on Channel9
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio-Live-Redmond-2016

Upcoming Events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Augustus 27^th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

SDN event – September 2^nd – Zeist, The Netherlands
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Fixxup – 22 September – Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22^nd, The Netherlands
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

TechBash – September 28-30 – Pennsylvania, USA
http://techbash.com
CodeUUR World record – October 14^th, The Netherlands
http://Codeuur.nl

Demo context:

In the SDN Cast Demo we tried to get an old .NET Forms application to be ported to .NET Core by switching out the backend using Entity Framework Core and existing databases. This didn’t go all that smooth but got it to work in the end showing the principle of how to get your hands on it and show what kind of issues you can run into doing this.

Here is a link we used to get us in the right direction:
Entity Framework Core – Existing Database
https://docs.efproject.net/en/latest/platforms/aspnetcore/existing-db.html

August 11, 2016

Software News and events for week 32

This week I collected the news for our SDN Cast again so here is the news for week 32 as we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast Channel. A weekly informal webcast where we discuss the news, events and everything to know on what is going on in software land.

This week the news and events and demo by Fanie Reynders on his Open Source WebAPI proxy project he is converting to .NET Core..

Where is the webcast to be found?
https://youtu.be/79Sl2I-6o8E

News of the Week

TFS “15” RC1 is available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/08/tfs-15-rc1-is-available

I Can Has .NET Core
https://icanhasdot.net

What I missed while I was relaxing this summer
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/05/what-i-missed-while-i-was-relaxing-this-summer

August 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/08/august-2016-evaluation-windows-developer-virtual-machines

Get a Windows 10 development environment
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

What’s new for Windows 10 IoT Core – The Anniversary Update
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Docs/WhatsNew

Microsoft Azure Stack: Upcoming Technical Preview and other updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/microsoft-azure-stack-upcoming-technical-preview-and-other-updates-3/

Microsoft acquires Beam interactive livestreaming service
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/08/11/microsoft-acquires-beam-interactive-livestreaming-service

Preview: iOS Simulator (For Windows) update 3
https://releases.xamarin.com/preview-ios-simulator-for-windows-update-3

Events

Events Last Week

NDC Sydney
http://ndcsydney.com
https://vimeo.com/ndcconferences

Events of this Week

Visual Studio Live August 8-12 – Redmond
https://vslive.com/events/redmond-2016/home.aspx
Live on Channel9 now!
https://channel9.msdn.com/

Upcoming

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam 27 Augustus
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

SDN event September 2- Zeist
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

October 14 – CodeUUR Worldrecord
http://Codeuur.nl

Tip of the week:
A mix of Gist and Roslyn
http://gistlyn.com/

August 5, 2016

Software News and events for week 31

Every week I collect the news for our webcast. I thought it was a good idea to also share the news here on my blog: The news for week 31 as we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast Channel. A weekly informal webcast where we discuss the news, events and everything to know on what is going on in software land.

This week the news and events and as special guest we invited Dick Moffat to discuss and demo the latest tech on Power BI. This part obviously is English, where our webcast usually is Dutch.

Where is the webcast to be found?
https://youtu.be/PFKAdZqPYNM

News of the Week

Windows 10 Anniversary Edition Released
Microsoft announces Windows 10 anniversary update available Aug. 2
https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/28/microsoft-announces-windows-10-anniversary-update-available-aug-2

How to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/08/02/how-to-get-the-windows-10-anniversary-update

Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK Now Available! Windows Store Open for Submissions
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/02/windows-10-anniversary-update-sdk-14393

Stack Overflow Documentation for Microsoft Developers
https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/stackoverflow-documentation-for-microsoft-developers

Botness 2016 Videos Available
http://fuse.microsoft.com/botness/botness-2016/

Unity 5.4 is out – here’s what’s in it
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/07/28/unity-5-4-is-out-heres-whats-in-it/
https://store.unity.com/download

Microsoft expanding in Middenmeer (The Netherlands) with two additional datacenters speeding up development
http://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/stadstreek/schagen/article28340696.ece/Microsoft-breidt-in-Middenmeer-met-twee-extra-datacenters-versneld-uit_ (Dutch)

HoloLens Development Edition Updates
https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/08/02/hololens-development-edition-updates-2

Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2

Xbox One S 2TB Launch Edition is Available Now
http://news.xbox.com/2016/08/02/xbox-one-s-2tb-available-now